Lake Gregory Self-Guided Walking Tour
The Black Oak & the Acorn Larder
A broad-crowned California black oak that the Serrano people treated as a grocery store — its acorns leached, pounded, and cooked into a staple porridge. It still feeds the forest, dropping thousands of acorns in a good year for deer, pigeons, woodpeckers, and squirrels.
Crestline, California
Lake Gregory Self-Guided Walking Tour
The Indigenous Era — The Serrano People
Long before the lake, this basin was a green high-mountain meadow where the Serrano people set seasonal camps each spring and summer, escaping the desert heat to hunt, gather chia, hold ceremonies, and harvest acorns from the California black oaks.
Crestline, California